"Thanks, y'all. I've been hooked on words for as long as I can remember. It started with the light stuff; Tolkien, Lewis, you know how it is. After my first hit of Heinlein, I knew I couldn't stop.

Before I knew it, I was into King and Koontz. Things got pretty dark. There were Elfstones, Shrikes, heroic lepers... I couldn't get enough.

One day, I peered over the top of a cardboard screen from my seat at the head of the kitchen table. I needed more words, but I had to have some control over what they said. I hit a new low. I had turned to role-playing games for my fix.

A gang of bloodshot, greasy-haired social pariahs were calling me Dungeon Master. Their Cheetos-stained fingers aimed accusations of murder at me over pyramids of Mountain Dew cans. They were dead. I had killed them all! They had to know the Alien King was a plot device! How could they have missed the clues? Idiots!! All my hard work, Wasted!

I knew, then, I had hit rock bottom. But thanks to you, my readers, I turned my life around! I don't write for those guys anymore. Now, I write for you.

My name is Gregory Carrico, and I'm a writer.

My Books:ApocalypstickTales from the Mist (Anthology)Children of the Plague (Best rank so far: #1 Science Fiction, #1 Horror!)^^1 MILLION READS!!^^King of RatsSand Episode One: The Shadow of the WorldLet's Scare Cancer to Death (Anthology)Addictive Paranormal Reads Halloween Box Set (multi-author box set)

other stories:Stephen King Book ClubTabbi's Petting ZooThe Persistence of Memory: A 5th Wave story commissioned by Sony Pictures.